A group studying where to put South Carolina's first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls' statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist ...

Maria Walls, the county’s elected treasurer since 2014, sued Beaufort County and its now former auditor in 2020. Two more ...

Robert Smalls, memorialized in a bust at Beaufort ... s families at a rendezvous on the Cooper River. Flying the South Carolina state flag and the Stars and Bars, he steered past several armed ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) — A state panel has decided where a monument memorializing Civil War hero Robert Smalls will stand on the South Carolina State House grounds and what it will look like.

Robert Smalls, the brave colored man who delivered the rebel steamer Planter into the hands of the Union authorities, who is now a member of Congress from South Carolina, and who, in consequence ...

Signage for the Beaufort County Government Robert Smalls Complex which includes the county ... client privilege as the reason to keep the report undisclosed, but a South Carolina media law expert ...

Smalls knew he might ... at all levels—including Robert Smalls: The former slave who had secured his own freedom aboard the Planter in 1862 represented South Carolina in the U.S. House of ...

On April 5, 1839, Robert Smalls, Civil War hero and five-term U.S. Congressman, was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, to his enslaved mother, Lydia Polite. In 1851, Smalls moved to the Charleston ...

Talk about it. Talk about it so you can understand.” Not far away, in Beaufort, South Carolina, where historians once considered a Park Service site more than 15 years ago, Robert Smalls’ elegant ...